The Daily Index — Tuesday, June 27, 2023 · TLDR Index

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AI IS KILLING THE OLD WEB, AND THE NEW WEB STRUGGLES TO BE BORN

This article looks at the potential effects AI will have on the future of the internet. The web used to be a place where individuals made things, but then companies took over and created platforms. Layoffs and AI-generated content are killing these platforms. AI systems can scale effortlessly and their output may potentially overrun the platforms people use for news, information, and entertainment. The decisions that we make now will determine who makes information in the future, how it is accessed, and who gets paid for it.

theverge.com · 11 min

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VECTORS ARE THE NEW JSON IN POSTGRESQL

Vectors are a mathematical structure and JSON is a data interchange format - both these representations have become essential to modern application development.

jkatz05.com · 10 min

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PASS, INTERNAL EMAILS SHOW

Microsoft wanted to start acquisition talks with several game companies to expand Xbox Game Pass to more audiences, but it is unclear whether the strategy was approved.

theverge.com · 2 min

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NEW TOOL TO SECURE YOUR GITHUB ACTIONS

action-permissions is a tool that monitors GitHub Actions workflows and recommends the minimum permissions required to run them.

github.blog · 2 min

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STABILITY AI HEAD OF RESEARCH RESIGNS FROM STARTUP

Stability AI lost both its Head of Research and Chief Operating Officer in June.

archive.ph · 3 min

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WERE FAKE

Social app IRL is shutting down after an internal investigation by its board of directors found that almost all of its 20 million users were bots.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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INTRODUCING THE MAGIC NIX CACHE

The Magic Nix Cache is a GitHub action that can dramatically speed up Nix-related workflows for free with just one line in a YAML configuration.

determinate.systems · 4 min